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the quadrennial Plenipotentiary “the primary Qatar has a strong ICT infrastructure that the Director of ITU's Telecommunication
event where ITU Member States define the is compliant with international standards, Development Bureau. Underlining
role of the Union in driving the development making it one of the leading countries in the challenges ahead for ITU and its
of telecommunications [and] information the world in this regard," Minister Al Mannai membership between now and the newly
and communication technologies (ICTs)." said in his proposal to host the conference announced PP-26, ITU's latest statistics
Following endorsements by delegates from in Doha. “The State of Qatar is also a world show an estimated 2.7 billion people – or
countries and regions worldwide during leader in organizing and hosting major one-third of humanity – still lacking access
today's plenary session, Romanian official events, including high-level global and to the Internet. Stark digital divides persist
and PP-22 Chair Sabin Sărmaș noted the regional conferences across a variety of despite accelerating progress over the last
“overwhelming support" for Qatar to host sectors." ITU's member states last week two decades and a global connectivity
the 2026 conference and offered to share elected a new leadership team for 2023- surge during COVID-19.
best practices and insights with the next 2026, headed by Secretary-General-elect
Plenipotentiary Chairperson. “The State of Doreen Bogdan-Martin, who is currently

Middle East Public Cloud Market to Reach US$9.8 Billion by 2027

The Middle East public cloud market is UAE and Saudi Arabia, are expanding their tenant (or between cloud tenants). “This
expected to grow at a CAGR of 21% until cloud deployment initiatives to enable enables the IT partner and client to focus
2027 and reach an estimated AED36 billion faster business analytics that will empower on more important matters such as fast
(US$9.8 billion), said Antti Ålander, Senior their enterprises to compete more and disruption free onboarding experience
Channel Manager, EMEA, BitTitan. With IT aggressively in the market and achieve from client perspective, or enabling their
spending for cloud computing increasing future growth,” added Alander, who will engineers to focus on more profitable tasks
at an exponential rate in the Middle East, be heading the participation of BitTitan, from a partner perspective,” explained
BitTitan sees greater growth prospects for the global leader in cloud migration and Alander. Looking ahead, BitTitan predicts
its business across the region. “The region managed services automation, through its expanded Microsoft Teams usage beyond
is in a very active adoption phase for public international distribution partner Logicom chatting as a future trend that will present
cloud services and XaaS (anything as a at the forthcoming Gitex Global. The opportunity for businesses to integrate and
service) across a wide range of businesses highlight of BitTitan’s participation at Gitex automate processes in the new interface.
for the next few years,” he said. will be the relaunch of a licence called the New possibilities
Increasing penetration Tenant Migration Bundle for Microsoft “Another very interesting case will be the
Published by Blueweave Consulting, the 365 to Microsoft 365 migrations with just announced cooperation between
Middle East Public Cloud Market Report MigrationWiz, which is intended to be used Salesforce and WhatsApp. This presents
released earlier this year mentions as part of the toolset managed service further new possibilities when it comes to
increasing penetration of cloud services providers and system integrators use to engaging your contacts who didn’t finalize
among SMEs as a key driver for the onboard their clients to Microsoft 365 or their shopping cart or prefer chatting over
growth of the public cloud market in the Google Workspace in most effective way speaking on the phone and can potentially
region, in addition to increasing demand without disruption to client business. drive sales growth for businesses looking
for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine MigrationWiz to improve their sales performance in the
learning services and solutions that enable MigrationWiz automates large part of the near future,” said Alander.
businesses to monitor, analyze and visualize onboarding projects – specifically scoping
large volumes of unprocessed data. “Small and moving existing data from other
businesses in the region, especially in the systems to destination Microsoft/Google

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